27.4.2009 von Benny Patock.

Business is war. People are our target. Sounds familiar? According to Umair Haque these are the rules that forged our world economics and brought us a global recession… and also a 5-blade razor and the Bic Mac. He makes a public call for a constructive capitalism in a recent conference talk at the Daytona Sessions:

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While being a little bit vague, Umair takes quite a well shot at many Sun Tzu and Von Clausewitz inspired industry giants such as Microsoft or the U.S. car industry. Welcome to the age of interaction, ladies and gentlemen, when:

• Exploitation has to become Renewal
• Command has to become Democracy
• War has to become Peace
• Domination has to become Equity
• Value has to become Meaning

But check out the video above. Umair pulls out some nice (although not surprisingly new) examples of todays uprising companies, who shake up their respective industries. Definitely worth a watch!

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25.4.2009 von Benny Patock.

My friend Jan posted another cool article over at Managing Tech analyzing the spreading of return debit notes on Hitmeister.de

over time.  While the rise of bounced payments towards the end of the month may not take you by surprise, have a look at the following beauty:

While the numer of bounced payments during the day remains more or less stable, hell breaks loose at night time. Interestigly enough most return debit notes relate to nighttime transactions. How about keeping that in mind, when working on your credit scoring next time…

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22.4.2009 von Benny Patock.

Well, only one of the reasons to be honest: It’s superfast and flexible! I found another great example here yesterday. If you noticed: T-Mobile had a major downtime in its German mobile network recently. I was affected as well - no cellphone for 3 hours. Felt like back in the 80s! (Well actuallyI thought my iPhone had given up on me. Glad it didn’t.)

So, what do you do in such a case? If you’re a T-Mobile customer, you google for more info. If you’re T-Mobile’s competition, you flip on AdWords :

(-> “Netzausfall” being network failure)

I don’t know, if you sell more phone contracts with that. But it’s surely a great reaction… and a good laugh!

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